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Friday, April 7, 2017

VENT PAGE 115

Vent pages are handy for posting of off-topic posts, rants, raves, rages, etc, which might not be appropriate on other threads where adults are having serious discussions. Childish rant? Need to call another poster a name? Just feel like spouting off? Or even if you have something to say and there doesn't seem to be any other logical place to say it.

I implored Watauga County Republicans to DO SOMETHING. They didn't. I promoted changes to the NC Constitution making hunting, trapping and shooting Constitutional Rights that couldn't be undone by extremists after future elections. Well, future elections have passed, and we once again have extremists on the Watauga County Commission. Just a few months after being elected, Democrats, especially Christmas Tree Farmer Wanna Be John Welsch, went after Sunday hunting. These extremist Democrats did so on religious grounds of all things!!!!! Although they didn't go after any other activities on religious grounds (skiing, movie watching, hiking, bird watching, mountain biking, tea drinking, etc), they sure did go after hunting. This is reminiscent of 9 years ago when the last Democratic Commission went after hunting based on, you guessed it, religious grounds. Both times their silliness was defeated by well spoken conservatives who made them look stupid.

The point being, why are we even worrying about extremist dumbocrats banning hunting on Sunday? We worry about this and other things like the farmer out in Aho being set upon by tin pot despots (County inspectors) because we failed to act when so called conservatives were in office during the past 8 YEARS. Yes, 8 YEARS!!! They had 8 years to change things up and get something done to protect the little women and men against the depredations of the nanny state. They didn't do that. Instead they gave us what I coined "status quo governance." They went on auto pilot and didn't roll back any predatory zoning rules or laws that plague a once free people. They also failed to proactively make laws limiting the power and scope of government; a move that would've benefited the proletariat in the future. The future is here now and the benefits of proactive thinking on the part of Rethuglican Commissioners is not.

We voted Republicans in 8 years ago to change things around and they didn't. They were just like the Democrats they replaced except for Vince Gable who was a true conservative. Even now the Watauga County RINOs still act like liberals. During the last election one couldn't tell the difference in candidates, Republican or Democrat - they all said the same things. I tried to help the Rethuglicans get over their own stupidity, but idiocy won the day.

As fake country boy Welsch and the rest of the cast of characters take your rights away one by one, be assured a few conservatives told you what was happening

Whew!!! You really hit it out of the park with that half line quip. Starting to get to you aren't I? Stings don't it pardner. LOL!

Blogger, how many hits do you get on average to this site daily? The reason I ask is the liberal socialist jackals can't help themselves. They peruse this site and look on in horror as their beliefs are upended and exposed as racist, bigoted, and false. Was wondering how many times a day they see themselves as victims

The Left has 25 percent of the population. They know they can never get their radical programs inacted. So, they nave turned to the courts to do it (most recent to the point was Obama care put through by Justice Roberts). The courts were never supposed to be partisan. But now that they have become so, especially the two Obama women "justices"' , then the next best thing is to have judges who follow the law and the Constitution. Let us hope Trump gets to appoint at least three more and the ship of state will be righted for a long time to come.

Do you believe in the US Constitution? Do you support human rights, civil rights and personal freedom and liberty?The courts act often against popular public opinion to defend personal freedom and liberty. Desegregation would have never happened in former slave states if it was up to popular opinion in those states. States legislators like our current NCGOP still haven't learned you can't legislate away the human rights of the minority. Religious freedom does mean just fundamentalist Christians or your personal religious beliefs but means ALL citizens.

In a nutshell, for the feeble minded lefties here, is what conservatives SHOULD be about.

"of Liberty then I would say that, in the whole plenitude of it’s extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will: but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’; because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. I will add 2dly that a pure republic is a state of society in which every member, of mature and sound mind, has an equal right of participation, personally, in the direction of the affairs of the society.

Thomas Jefferson

The "mature and sound mind" part kinda leaves out democrats but you get the drift.

I see you continue to make the conservative point in ignoring the fact that your party first put blacks on the plantation and you are the party that keeps them there even today. Tell us coward, have you watched the video entitled "No Guns For Negros", or does it sting too much to watch? LOL!!!

Tell me what your understanding of the Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy? Tell me why former Democratic Whites in Alabama, Mississippi, and other former slave states vote nearly 75-80% Republican. Why did Storm Thurman switch political parties and become a Republican? Do you have any idea how easy selling bigotry is? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVw9d3SIzA

Sure, racism and bigotry play no part and the Republicans would never appeal to racism, bigotry or scapegoating "those people" ( people of color, LBGT, non Christians, Believers of Islam or undocumented workers).

Anonymous 4/10, you need only look at the elements that these republicans subscribe to understand their mindset:

1)White.2)Supremacy.3)Nationalism.4)Authoritarianism.

The republicans on this site: Sarkazien, Wolf's Head, Blogger, Guy Faulkes, et. al. may put forth an insincere denial of this, but probably not. These elements compose the steel in their brittle spine.

Watauga Democrat reported on the Watauga County Democrat Convention today. Following is a quote "Chairwoman Diane Tilson spoke about the progressive movements Democrats have historically been involved in, including “we will continue to fight for everyone to choose what bathroom they will use.”

"Sure, racism and bigotry play no part and the Republicans would never appeal to racism, bigotry or scapegoating "those people" ( people of color, LBGT, non Christians, Believers of Islam or undocumented workers)."

Neither the Wolf or I are Republicans.

People of color: Everyone is a person of color. There is only one race and that is the human race. The race baiters are just as much at fault as is the KKK.

LBGT:These people deserve the same rights as anyone else. This also means no special rights . The same rights.

non Christians: As I do not believe in organized religion, some people say I am not a Christian. I am. I just do not need a preacher or priest to tell me how to be one.

Believers of Islam: I have no problem with those that are not jihadist or followers of Sharia law. These people approach religion as I do except for coming from an Islamist background.

undocumented workers: You are talking about illegal aliens. These people are criminals. If they had followed out immigration laws, there would be no problem with many of them . Many others are violent criminals. However if you do not follow the rule of law, you are a criminal in either case and should be deported.

Now, Anonymous, what do you believe about all of the entities you mention?

It looks like the RINO Republicans are afraid to dispute ANY of the points about the damage they've done to the county. The RINO Party in Watauga County is done. It's relevance was lost over the past 8 years, probably to never return. They could've had a Republican Sheriff 4 years ago, but screwed that one up big time. Now we are saddled with a liberal Sheriff who doesn't believe in the right to keep and bear arms. No one to blame but the RINO party including one Virginia Foxx who sided with a crooked Blowing Rock Town Council to protect viewsheds of town council members over the interests of sportswomen and men. And to make it all the more incredible, it were the sportswomen and men who helped vote the traitor in office!!!! Amazing. Any Rethuglicans care to comment? LOL

The only way to look at Anonymous's 9:23 PM racist comment is that he feels inferior to others and since he's a racist, he feels more inferior to White people than he does to other races. It could be he's a self-loathing White liberal or it could be he's a "minority". It could be that he identifies as a minority like those in the NEWS lately. Anonymous 9:23- Please give on a scale of 1 to 10, ten being your feelings of being the most inferior, one being a feeling of least inferiority to the races.

GuyFaulkes- I read that he defines people by their race. He seems to believe that White people are better than him and that he thinks White people have supremacy over him and others. Sad, because it's not true. He even says it's not true by saying- "I am inferior to no one". This could be just part of the brain disorder known as liberalism.

"Joseph Jakubowski, the Wisconsin man accused of stealing more than a dozen guns and sending a threatening 161-page manifesto to President Donald Trump, has been arrested after a manhunt that stretched on for more than a week, investigators confirmed on Friday."

The Democrat terrorist wannabe gave up without even a fight. He was armed to the teeth but had no guts. A true liberal. He probably didn't even know which end of the rifle the bullet comes out.

Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/red-terrorist-targeting-trump-gets-nasty-easter-surprise#SSt0cOrrkgy4rFE7.99

Liberals are focused on problem solving, making society easier, more just, cleaner streams, cleaner air quality, better educated children and more opportunity for our children and grandchildren.

Conservatives seen focus on revenge for imagined injuries they can't quite articulate but are sure they have suffered. Examples are phony war on Christians, Obama FEMA camps, Obama or Liberal gun confiscation, death panels.

Anonymous reminds me of a character in the M*A*S*H books named Goofus McDuff. He was always 180 degrees incorrect,no matter what he did. It does not matter what the liberals focus on, they never can find a way to accomplish their goals because they go about it completely backwards.

"Liberals are focused on problem solving, making society easier, more just, cleaner streams, cleaner air quality, better educated children and more opportunity for our children and grandchildren."

Does this focus manifest itself in the year long violence at political rallies, riots, and protests over the Trump election? So much for the peaceful transition of power. Coward jackal, did you happen to see your fellow liberal shot in Charlotte a few short months ago during one of your "problem solving" protests? Funny how liberals and the liberal media don't want to talk about that. Or Berkeley where snowflakes torched buildings and burned cars. Oh, and here's a good one - the anti free speech attacks on conservative speakers at college campuses that liberals are so proud of. Is this the "better educated" children you speak of? Sounds like something out of 1937 Germany my confused jackal.

The elementary phrase "making society easier" - what the hell does that mean? The government has never made society "easier." Ever. The free market has done what I think your pedantic phrase speaks to, but never government. Ask the folks trying to figure out HOW to pay their taxes if society is "easier." Or the government mandated gas can spouts, catalytic converters, regulations against small business owners, and zoning regulations that make things "easier."

As usual, liberals look to the nanny state for cradle to grave assistance instead of figuring it out on their own. This is why liberals love welfare, regulation, tyranny, communism, government-forced healthcare, common core, and innumerable other government sponsored activities that make government and corporations stronger and the peasants weaker.

Then again, liberal socialist jackals are the party of slavery and the KKK (Senator Byrd - A Democratic leader). Have you watched the video entitled "No Guns for Negros" yet? LOL

I hate to be the one to comment on this, but the blog troll/village idiot just tried to insult Easter with his 5:50 PM comment on Easter Sunday, then at 7:22 AM on Easter Monday complains because he doesn't think the White House handled the Easter egg Role up to his standards. It just don't get no stupiter.

Lots of gaslighting to avoid answering the many questions such as: Solyndra, Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Beer Summit, and spying on Trump. And you're worried about Easter Egg Rolls? Looks like pickings are getting slim for the liberal socialist jackals. LOL!!! Oh, and Mr. Trump will address the NRA - the first President to do so since Reagan. To get you ready, how about you watch the video entitled "No Guns for Negros." Then come tell us how important those egg rolls are.

It's time for us to have a talk. The one about the birds and the bees. I'm going to tell you the facts so you don't get confused or misled by people who are not your friends. Okay, here goes.

It's this way. People are biologically male or female. Male or female are people's sex, not their gender. People don't have genders. Words have genders. Word genders are masculine or feminine nouns and pronouns. "She" and "he" are genders. "His" and "her" are genders. That's because language is a "social construct". A person's sex is not a "social construct".

Some people want you to conflate gender with sex. They want you to believe saying so makes it so. Such people are demented and have evil intent. Other people actually believe saying so makes it so, for reasons you won't understand yet. Stay away from them. Especially them.

Now a grammar lesson is bigoted. To a liberal everything must be gray in order to mold society as the current fads demand. I remember when one socialist congressman said the word socialist is bigoted. I guess this is why liberals are always hearing dog whistles.

Venezuela celebrating its 18th year of socialism by rioting and starving. Oil rich and socialist stupid. There have been Socialist numb-nuts commenting here on this blog about the wonder that is socialist Venezuela. Numb-nut, you were wrong. And it won't be any different here as the Democrats insist on socialism.

Stupid Anonymous 9:39 - transgenders aren't really the point. The point is sexual perverts and predators exploiting open bathroom laws to gain access to girls and women. You will endanger millions of females just so .5% of the population can use the bathroom of their imagined identity. Go to the bathroom that corresponds to your actual, biological sex, not what you wish you were. If you have a penis, go to the men's room. If you have to sit to pee and have a period every month, go to the women's bathroom. I don't believe that a girl who says she's a boy stops having a period just because of her "choice" and men's rooms are not equipped to handle the needs of females. Let's not turn the whole world upside-down for .5% of the population. This liberal, be-whatever-you-feel-like-being policy is anti-science and anti-logic. Feelings reign supreme and trump common sense.

Transgenderism represents the greatest threat to women today in many different ways. Endangering women in restrooms, locker rooms and showers is the most obvious. What about this: should a transgender girl (biological boy) be eligible to compete with actual girls/women in athletics? Should they be eligible for athletic scholarships that are specifically for women? What if we see a rash of "girls" (biological boys) taking scholarships that are meant for girls? If not, why not? What if actual girls/women become injured when competing with "girls" (biological boys)? Why stop at gender? Why not race? Could a white person identify as black and apply for scholarships designated for minorities? If not, why not?

If Truman, the Democrat, had listened to General MacArthur we wouldn't be n the current situation with North Korea. Obama followed Truman and didn't listen to his generals either.... ISIS. President Trump appears to be listening to his generals.... we will see.

How disappointing. This state, athletic organizations like the NCAA, NBA and ACC, and the media castigate North Carolina for a law that requires people to use the bathroom of the biological sex and no one here will defend transgenderism? If you support allowing transgenders to use the restroom that corresponds to their "feelings" (the gender that they "identify" with), answer these questions:

1. Will there be any method of determining if a man walking into a women's restroom is an actual transgender? If so, what is it? If not, how do you prevent sexual predators from exploiting open restroom policies to gain access to potential victims?2. Should trangenders be allowed to compete athletically against persons of their "chosen" gender rather than their biological sex (hint: it's already happening)? If so, should they be eligible to receive scholarships designated for their chosen (but not actual, biological) sex? In other words, if a boy who is just a little bit slower in track and field events than other boys "decides" he is a girl, and is faster than actual girls, should he be able to "switch teams" and take a Title IX scholarship from women? What if he then, after benefiting from the scholarship, reclaims his actual gender claiming that he was "Questioning" or "Gender Fluid" (LGBTQIA covers both of those, right?)?3. Should men who decide they are women be allowed to compete athletically against women if that competition leads to a rash of injuries for women? READ THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT WOMEN: http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/transgender-mma-fighter-destroys-female-opponent/4. Why stop at race? Can a person identify as another race? If not, why not?

How far will you go? Will anyone defend the absurd? Will you continue to justify turning the world upside down for everyone just for the benefit of the "feelings" of a few, while doing serious, real damage to potentially thousands?

Anonymous 9:30 AM- There was a liberal commenter on this blog who said he/she would be ok with his/her young daughters showering with men for the sake of this version of political correctness. He/she even claimed to have transgender/crossdressing friends who they would be comfortable with showering with his/her daughters. There are no limits to how far liberals will sink.

The real question is "When are the ACC and the NCAA going to stop discriminating and require all of their member schools to allow anyone to compete based on their own identification of their gender. You know, like they preached about when dictating to North Carolina about the evil discrimination represented by HB! !

Thank God for Trump. Maybe some of this nonsense will be reversed by his common sense administration!

Chairman of the House Freedom Conference Rep. Mark Meadows gives President Trump an A for performance. Adding, that many in his North Carolina District agree that the president has kept his promises. Meadows had been a major critic of the president.

Trump and the Chinese leader hit it off. It appears some good things are coming out of their time together. We may never know, but I will always believe that President Trump felt he could do the same thing with Putin. I believe the type of men with leadership qualities both of them have, would have hit it off as well. The world would be a lot safer place today. But then the Russians uncovered the skulduggery of the Democrat’s campaign. The Dems so humiliated that they were ready to start WW III in retaliation. Trump was handcuffed.

Saw our influential Congresswoman on national TV three different times today. First at the very right hand of the president. Next at his left hand. Finally at the right hand of the Vice President. Each time she was right up front where she belongs. She does us proud.

The thing is, you a-holes don't want a real town hall...once where she is given a chance to explain what is going on in congress and to answer legitimate questions about legislation and the position she might take on various issues.

No, what you want, is an opportunity to protest; shout her down, and generally demonstrate you disrespect for her and for the political process.

The recent organized disruptions of various "town halls" has done nothing more than to discourage legitimate opportunities for congressmen and their constituents to have civil discussions about matters that concern all of us.

You guys don't want a town hall. You want elected leaders to volunteer to be clowns in you dunk tanks. Most are too smart for you.

I wonder if Goofus will claim this would be a racist act because we took the money of an undocumented pharmacist to keep out undocumented workers, all of whom are criminals because the are illegally coming into this country and some of whom are Hispanic.

“As of Thursday, the snowpack across the entire Sierra was at 164% of average for this time of year. The northern region was at 147%, the central was at 175% and the southern was 164% of average, respectively, state data showed.”

Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment, gave a scolding report on Wednesday that there is “no sign of warming” in Washington state. Myers’ claims that even despite “academics, like U.W. Professor Paul Johnson, say that declining snowpack levels in the Northwest is a sign of global warming,” “They’re wrong. Snowpack levels have been above average in eight of the last ten years.”

Myers also shared that, “In the winter of 2015-16 snowpack was 112% of normal. In 2016-17 it was 115% of normal.”

The House may have passed a bill, but it still has to pass the Senate, and I think it will fail. The forces that want to keep Obamacare are wanting to keep it in place to collapse the health insurance system and force the country into a single payer, that is GOVERNMENT, controlled system.

Then they will be able to cull the population.

As I said before, the Republicans in Congress are the only ones who can stop Trump.

Socialist leaders sure have their own personal style. The Venezuela Leader brags about how his people have lost an average of 19 pounds due to his food distribution control. Obama bragged about all the people he caused to have to be put on food stamps.

Even Obama is cashing in on on the Climate Change Cash Cow. He's charging for a speech about it. Rather than fattening Obama's wallet, buy food for the poor. Obama is jetting (not commercial I'm sure) to Italy, leaving a carbon trail all the way to the Italian airport. Then he will jump in a 8 MPG limo to his pulpit where he will preach the evils of fossil fuels to a group who probably did not walk there. They will be comfortable in the air conditioned meeting room as they cheer Obama for his concern for the planet.